"he found being in sole control of the family company difficult; this, his wife's political career, and their desire for financial security caused Thatcher to sell Atlas to Castrol in 1965 for £530,000 (£ today). He continued to run Atlas and received a seat on Castrol's board; after Burmah Oil took over Castrol in 1966 Thatcher became a senior divisional director, managing the planning and control department. He retired from Burmah in June 1975, four months after his wife won the Conservative Party leadership election. In addition to being a director of Burmah Oil Thatcher was vice-chairman of Attwoods plc"
"crammer, where he obtained seven GCE 'O' Levels. Shah held various jobs, amongst which was floor manager for Granada's television studio. After he was fired from the ""Manchester Evening News"" in 1976, he decided to launch into newspaper publishing on his own and started with the proceeds of £14,000 from the sale of his first home, in Sale, which he had bought for £4,000. As the owner of six local newspapers, Shah employed anti-trade union laws introduced by the Margaret Thatcher governments to defeat the print unions after national strikes that went on for seven months – despite receiving death"
"Shams (newspaper) Shams (in Arabic شمس meaning ""Sun"") was a Saudi Arabian daily newspaper published between 2005 and 2012. Its publisher described the paper as modern and trendy. ""Shams"" was launched as a tabloid paper in December 2005. Turki bin Khalid bin Faisal, a grandson of Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, was the chairman of the board of directors of Shams Information Company for Publishing and Development that published the paper. It was also reported that he partly owned the paper. Al Wataniya group was also the founder of the daily. There is inconsistent information about the daily print of"
"literature, politics and entertainment from Hollywood to Bollywood. The editor in chief is Aysha Taryam. The Gulf Today The Gulf Today is an English-language daily newspaper based in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. It is one of the four UAE broadsheet newspapers. The newspaper was launched on 15 April 1996 by brothers Taryam Omran Taryam and Abdullah Omran Taryam owners of Dar Al Khaleej for Press, Printing and Publishing. The Dar Al Khaleej group also publishes ""Al Khaleej"", an Arabic daily broadsheet newspaper. The ""Gulf Today"" publishes an all-colour entertainment tabloid, ""Time Out"", and an all-colour magazine, ""Panorama"", which are"
"the newspaper's first anniversary as a tabloid. Topless Page 3 girls soon became a regular feature in ""The Sun"" and are credited with helping to boost the newspaper's circulation significantly in the 1970s and 1980s. Some Page 3 girls became household names. Samantha Fox, who appeared on Page 3 from 1983 to 1986, became one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s, and famously earned more than then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher while still in her teens. Britain's other ""red top"" tabloids introduced competing features under different names. ""The Daily Star"" called its topless models ""Starbirds."" ""The Daily Mirror"""
"censors suspended it several times. After the assassination of Naser ad-Din Shah in 1896, the Ottoman government permanently banned the journal. Akhtar (magazine) The Persian periodical Akhtar (meaning ""Star"" in English) was founded in 1876, following the suggestion of the Persian ambassador in Istanbul at that time, and was published until its discontinuation in 1896. Editor and director was Agha Mohammed Taher Tabrizi, the editor in chief Mirza Mehdi Tabrizi (1839-1907) was the founder of the Khorshid Publishing House in Istanbul and later the editor of ""Hekmat"" (1892-1912) in Cairo. Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan Kashani, who founded the periodical ""Sorayya"""
"Akhtar (magazine) The Persian periodical Akhtar (meaning ""Star"" in English) was founded in 1876, following the suggestion of the Persian ambassador in Istanbul at that time, and was published until its discontinuation in 1896. Editor and director was Agha Mohammed Taher Tabrizi, the editor in chief Mirza Mehdi Tabrizi (1839-1907) was the founder of the Khorshid Publishing House in Istanbul and later the editor of ""Hekmat"" (1892-1912) in Cairo. Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan Kashani, who founded the periodical ""Sorayya"" (1898-1904) later published in Cairo, also briefly worked for the journal. At the beginning, Akhtar - the first non-official press medium"
"Islands and the Virgin Islands. From 1986, News Corporation's annual tax bill averaged around seven percent of its profits. In Britain, in the 1980s, Murdoch formed a close alliance with Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and ""The Sun"" credited itself with helping her successor John Major to win an unexpected election victory in the 1992 general election, which had been expected to end in a hung parliament or a narrow win for Neil Kinnock's Labour. In the general elections of 1997, 2001 and 2005, Murdoch's papers were either neutral or supported Labour under Tony Blair. The Labour Party, from when"
"Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain"". Today (UK newspaper) Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. ""Today"", with the American newspaper ""USA Today"" as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, ""Second Spy Inside GCHQ"". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established ""Daily Mail"" and ""Daily Express"". It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce"
"carrying a series of pro-government articles and a picture of a smiling president Erdogan. Zaman (newspaper) Zaman (, literally ""time"" or ""era""), sometimes stylized as ZAMAN, was a daily newspaper in Turkey. Zaman was a major, high-circulation daily before government seizure on 4 March 2016 (the circulation was around 650,000 as of February 2016) It was founded in 1986 and was the first Turkish daily to go online in 1995. It contains national (Turkish), international, business, and other news. It also has many regular columnists who cover current affairs, interviews, and a culture section. The newspaper originally supported the Justice"
"Akşam Akşam (""Evening"") is a Turkish newspaper founded in 1918, owned by Ethem Sancak's TürkMedya Grup (T Medya Yatırım San. ve Tic. AŞ.) since 2013. In 2013 it had a circulation of around 100,000. ""Akşam""'s founders in 1918 included Necmettin Sadak, Kazım Şinasi Dersan, Falih Rıfkı Atay and Ali Naci Karacan. Former editors include Doğan Özgüden (1964 - 1966). In 2010 former editor Semra Pelek and editorial manager Mustafa Dolu were charged in relation to reporting on the Ergenekon trials. ""Akşam"" was owned by the Çukurova Media Group from 1997 to 2013, and previously Mehmet Ali Ilıcak. It is currently"
"Today (UK newspaper) Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. ""Today"", with the American newspaper ""USA Today"" as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, ""Second Spy Inside GCHQ"". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established ""Daily Mail"" and ""Daily Express"". It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce photographs in black and white. The colour was initially crude, produced"
"At the beginning of February 2012, ""Shams"" was closed down due to the conditions beyond its management. Shams (newspaper) Shams (in Arabic شمس meaning ""Sun"") was a Saudi Arabian daily newspaper published between 2005 and 2012. Its publisher described the paper as modern and trendy. ""Shams"" was launched as a tabloid paper in December 2005. Turki bin Khalid bin Faisal, a grandson of Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, was the chairman of the board of directors of Shams Information Company for Publishing and Development that published the paper. It was also reported that he partly owned the paper. Al Wataniya"
"Zaman (newspaper) Zaman (, literally ""time"" or ""era""), sometimes stylized as ZAMAN, was a daily newspaper in Turkey. Zaman was a major, high-circulation daily before government seizure on 4 March 2016 (the circulation was around 650,000 as of February 2016) It was founded in 1986 and was the first Turkish daily to go online in 1995. It contains national (Turkish), international, business, and other news. It also has many regular columnists who cover current affairs, interviews, and a culture section. The newspaper originally supported the Justice and Development Party (AKP), but became increasingly critical of that party and its leader,"
"was sold to Ethem Sancak. Akşam Akşam (""Evening"") is a Turkish newspaper founded in 1918, owned by Ethem Sancak's TürkMedya Grup (T Medya Yatırım San. ve Tic. AŞ.) since 2013. In 2013 it had a circulation of around 100,000. ""Akşam""'s founders in 1918 included Necmettin Sadak, Kazım Şinasi Dersan, Falih Rıfkı Atay and Ali Naci Karacan. Former editors include Doğan Özgüden (1964 - 1966). In 2010 former editor Semra Pelek and editorial manager Mustafa Dolu were charged in relation to reporting on the Ergenekon trials. ""Akşam"" was owned by the Çukurova Media Group from 1997 to 2013, and previously Mehmet"
"of an Australian republic, having campaigned for one during the 1999 referendum. In 1968, Murdoch entered the British newspaper market with his acquisition of the populist ""News of the World"", followed in 1969 with the purchase of the struggling daily ""The Sun"" from IPC. Murdoch turned ""The Sun"" into a tabloid format and reduced costs by using the same printing press for both newspapers. On acquiring it, he appointed Albert 'Larry' Lamb as editor and – Lamb recalled later – told him: ""I want a tearaway paper with lots of tits in it"". In 1997 ""The Sun"" attracted 10 million"
"The Gulf Today The Gulf Today is an English-language daily newspaper based in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. It is one of the four UAE broadsheet newspapers. The newspaper was launched on 15 April 1996 by brothers Taryam Omran Taryam and Abdullah Omran Taryam owners of Dar Al Khaleej for Press, Printing and Publishing. The Dar Al Khaleej group also publishes ""Al Khaleej"", an Arabic daily broadsheet newspaper. The ""Gulf Today"" publishes an all-colour entertainment tabloid, ""Time Out"", and an all-colour magazine, ""Panorama"", which are distributed free with the daily at the weekends. ""Time Out"" and ""Panorama"" cover film, sports,"
"to the ""Western Mail"" in Australia in 1981, and edited ""The Australian"" in 1982, where he was nicknamed ""Sir Loin"" by staff members. He left the Group in 1983 to work for the ""Daily Express"", and after standing down in 1986 set up his own public relations company, Larry Lamb Associates. Lamb was knighted in 1980 on the recommendation of Margaret Thatcher, whose electoral success may have been helped by ""The Sun""s coverage of the industrial strife under the previous Labour government. His nickname was inspired by the Children's Hour character Larry the Lamb. After he received his knighthood, ""Private"
"Murdoch. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Murdoch's publications were generally supportive of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At the end of the Thatcher/Major era, Murdoch switched his support to the Labour Party and its leader, Tony Blair. The closeness of his relationship with Blair and their secret meetings to discuss national policies was to become a political issue in Britain. This later changed, with ""The Sun"", in its English editions, publicly renouncing the ruling Labour government and lending its support to David Cameron's Conservative Party, which soon afterwards formed a coalition government. In Scotland, where the Tories had suffered"
"threats. He was the first person to invoke Thatcher's trade union laws de-recognise unions. The Wapping dispute followed three years later. Shah first confronted the trade unions at his Warrington print works and the Manchester news offices in 1983. As the owner of the ""Warrington Messenger"", he sacked six workers in a declared anti-union move. In response, the National Graphical Association (NGA) began mass picketing of the ""Messenger""'s offices. On 30 November, over four thousand trade unionists attended a mass picket. The police brought in riot-trained Police Support Units from five surrounding areas and the confrontation became physical. The NGA"
"publishing its newspapers ""Nidhal ash-Sha'b"" (""the People's Struggle"") and ""an-Nour"" (""the Light""), and its activities were closely monitored by the security services. It effectively operated underground throughout most of the 1980s, with membership lists a closely guarded secret. In 1986, the anti-communist crackdown ended and the ban on the communist party was lifted by Assad as a concession to the Soviets. In 1986, Bakdash and deputy secretary Yusuf Faisal differed over the policies of perestroika and glasnost adopted by Soviet Communist Party general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Faisal was supportive of Gorbachev's reforms, while Bakdash was opposed. This led to another"
"by Faisal bin Salman, a member of the Saudi royal family. Launched in London in 1978, and printed on four continents in 14 cities. The paper is often billed as ""the leading Arab daily newspaper"", and calls itself ""the premier pan-Arab daily newspaper"" based on the fact that past estimates of its circulation have given it the largest circulation of the off-shore Pan-Arab dailies, a category including its chief competitor ""Al-Hayat"". However, reliable estimates are available only from the early 2000s, before rival ""Al-Hayat"" launched a massive effort to increase circulation in Saudi Arabia. ""Asharq Al-Awsat"" covers events through a"
"In the same year he also covered the UN enquiry into allegations of genocide in Nigeria. He left ""Dawn"" in 1974 to move to Dubai to help launch the ""Khaleej Times"", the first English newspaper in the Middle-East, where with Mahmoud Haroon he rose to become one of its establishing editors. He held the position of ""Khaleej Times"" editor for over a decade. In 1991, Zahedi rejoined ""Dawn"", this time as assistant editor. He published both his books on philately in the mid-90s. He retired from journalism in 2001 following a stroke. Zahedi is the author of two books, one"
"government to ban the Islamist group Hizb-ut Tahrir and the antisemitic publication ""Dajjal,"" which is published by another notorious Islamist militancy group, Hizbut Towhid. A campaign against Zakir Naik led Britain and Canada to refuse him entry. Salah Choudhury Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury (born 12 January 1965) is the editor of the Bangladeshi tabloid ""Weekly Blitz"". In 1996, he established the first private television channel in Bangladesh, A-21 TV. He has been physically assaulted three times and kidnapped once in Bangladesh due to his anti-jihadist views and his inclination to work with Israel to create an intercultural understanding between Israel"
"Dinç Bilgin Dinç Bilgin (born 1940) is a Turkish businessman who built up a media empire which was seized by the Turkish government in 2002 over alleged financial irregularities. He founded a number of newspapers including ""Sabah"" (1985) and ""Takvim"" (1994), and a number of television stations, including ATV (1993). He also founded the now-defunct ""Ateş"" and ""Yeni Yüzyıl"" in 1995, selling them to Korkmaz Yiğit in 1998. Bilgin began his career at ""Yeni Asır"". He founded a number of newspapers including ""Sabah"" (1985) and ""Takvim"" (1994), and a number of television stations, including ATV (1993). He also founded the"
"writer. He was made editor of the popular Urdu weekly, Lail-o-Nahar [Day and Night], in place of famous poet Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum by the Government of Pakistan. In 1962, Ahmed started his popular radio program, Talqeen Shah [The Preacher] which made him immensely popular among the people in towns and villages. He was appointed director of the Markazi Urdu Board in 1966, which was later renamed as Urdu Science Board, a post he held for 29 years. He remained with the board until 1979. He also served as adviser in the Education Ministry during Zia-ul-Haq's regime. Ahmed, in his"
"good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child."" Thatcher began her career as a journalist in Australia, working on the ""Sydney Morning Herald"" from 1977 to 1979. She became a TV reporter at Channel Seven, also in Sydney, and later a reporter on its news morning show, 11AM. On her return to Britain, she worked as a presenter for LBC, BBC Radio 4, TV-am and wrote travel articles for ""The Daily Telegraph"". Due to her mother's high-profile political position, many newspapers refused to publish work with her byline. Her first book, ""Diary of an"
"Chelcheragh Chelcheragh (""Chandelier"" in English) is a weekly social and news magazine printed in Tehran, Iran. ""Chelcheragh"" was established in 2002. The magazine is published on a weekly basis on Saturdays and targets younger readers and provides cultural and societal news. The headquarters of the weekly is in Tehran. It has a reformist stance and reformist figures such as Mohammad Khatami. Fereidoon Amouzadeh Khalili is the managing editor and actress Bahareh Rahnama is among the contributors of the magazine. In November 2010 the weekly was temporarily folded. It was restarted in January 2011. The weekly organizes cultural events and one"
"the first English-speaking publishing house of the country, actively supporting Yemen in its socio-economic transition. It also launched magazine ""Yemen Today"" is the most dynamic branch of the Publishing House, promoting investment and tourism in Yemen, a country which has promising potential in this field. On 4 February 2006, the ""Yemen Observer"" published two articles on Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad. The articles were accompanied by photographs showing 20-30,000 Yemeni women demonstrating against the cartoons, and empty shelves in a Sanaá supermarket with a sign informing customers that Danish products had been withdrawn. Also included were crossed-out"
"Northern & Shell has operated The Health Lottery in the United Kingdom since it launched in 2011. Desmond founded Northern and Shell in 1974 and launched a magazine called ""International Musician and Recording World"". In 1983, Northern and Shell obtained the licence to publish ""Penthouse"" in the United Kingdom which led to its publishing a range of adult titles, ""Asian Babes"" among them. These titles were later sold in 2004. It was the first company to move to the revamped Docklands and the Princess Royal opened the offices. When the company moved to the Northern & Shell Tower, the Duke"
"Emel (magazine) emel is a defunct British lifestyle magazine that reported on contemporary British Muslim culture. The final issue appeared in January 2013. Sarah Joseph co-founded the magazine with her husband, Mahmud al-Rashid, in September 2003. Joseph was the magazine's editor, and al-Rashid was a volunteer publisher and editor-in-chief. It was the first mainstream Muslim magazine in the UK to experience cross-over interest from non-Muslim readers and its circulation reached 30 countries. Writing in the ""Journal of Middle East Women's Studies"" in 2010, Reina Lewis claimed: ""For emel, lifestyle has the potential to situate modern Muslim practices as part of"
"Bush. This caused some controversy and the paper was forced to issue an apology and remove the article from its website. Following the 7 July 2005 London bombings, ""The Guardian"" published an article on its comment pages by Dilpazier Aslam, a 27-year-old British Muslim and journalism trainee from Yorkshire. Aslam was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist group, and had published a number of articles on their website. According to the paper, it did not know that Aslam was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir when he applied to become a trainee, though several staff members were informed of this"
"to become a major feature of the ""Mirror"", and this increased the popularity of both her and her magazine. In April 1961, Begum Hamidullah opened her own publishing house: Mirror Press. Mirror Press, and its subsidiary, Mirror Publications, were charged with printing the Mirror from 1961 onwards. They also did other jobs, but the publishing house remained small. The ""Mirror"" became a highly controversial magazine in the '60s, mainly due to Begum Hamidullah's editorials, which were highly critical of the government's authoritarian form of rule. As her magazine became and more and more risqué, Begum Hamidullah began to feel that"